Hello, I’m getting a pop-up message from OneDrive, which asks me to set it up by entering my email address and signing in. Actually, I’m not a OneDrive fan and do not intend using it. I’m using Windows 10 OS from 2015 and have unchecked the “Start OneDrive automatically when I sign into Windows” option, but the pop-up did not go away. Could you please tell me if there is a way to disable OneDrive pop-ups? Thanks in advance!

OneDrive is a Microsoft’s service, which allows transmitting, sharing, and keeping personal files on the “cloud.” All Microsoft Windows users can use the service for free. Earlier Windows versions did not have OneDrive pre-installed, so people who opted to use it had to download it from the store. However, with the Windows 10, the service comes installed by default and Microsoft highly recommends using it due to the fact that it can also be used for the synchronization of visual customization, themes, app settings, IE, Edge, history, saved passwords, and system’s settings on Xbox One, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows Phone. Despite many advantages, people a free to choose whichever cloud storage to use and many decide to use an alternative one due to some personal attitudes.

The problem is that Windows 10 system automatically enables OneDrive if a PC user signs in to the system with a Microsoft account. Nevertheless, if a PC owner uses a local account for signing in to Windows, the “Set up OneDrive”pop-up occurs regularly. The message introduces OneDrive in one sentence and asks the PC user to enter his/her email address and sign in. It is possible to close the pop-up by pressing the X button at the top right corner of it, but it will reoccur after a while. Indeed, “Set up OneDrive” error is irritating. Luckily, there is a quite easy solution, which will help you to disable “Set up OneDrive” pop-up permanently.

If you are not using Pro version of Windows 10, then you don’t have the access to Group Policy Editor. Therefore, the only way to stop the system from generating OneDrive’s set up messages is to add a registry entry that will prevent OneDrive from running. Since this method requires modifying the registry, don’t forget to create registry backups.

Press Windows key + R, type regedit, and press Enter.

Use the left pane to navigate to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows entry.

The right-click on Windows and select New -> Key.

Name the new key as OneDrive (if such a key already exists, skip this step).

Name the new value as DisableFileSyncNGSC. Again, if this value is already present, skip this step.

Then double click on the DisableFileSyncNGSC value that you have just created and change its value to 1.

Finally, close Registry Editor and reboot your PC.

Hopefully, you have successfully disabled “Set up OneDrive” pop-up using the instructions above. If none of the methods worked, please let us know so that we could re-address the issue.

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